What I learned from Playing Older Games
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If you can’t be bothered to look at all the projects below, here’s a link to my resume instead: Resume
Games
Play Dice With Me, Will Ya?
The 3D version of the very old Farkle dice game.
Tools: The Nikola Engine
Crossing The Line
Find your way through the treacherous highway in order to finally save yourself from your own mind and past.
Tools: The Nikola Engine
The Problem Solver
A 3D western arcade shooter. Except, you are playing to solve your life's problems.
Tools: C++, OpenGL, GLFW3
Cube Run
A minimal 3D endless runner made entirely from scratch.
Tools: C++, OpenGL, GLFW3
Who Am I?
Take the boy out of the darkness
Tools: C++, Raylib
Lepey The Covetous
A game using the totally wrong and unrealistic Irish stereotype of a small drunk green leprechaun
Tools: C#, MonoGame
Tools
Osiris
A simple fantasy map generator, using simplex noise
Tools: C++
The Nikola Engine
A cross-platform framework for window creation, input handling, and rendering using OpenGL
Tools: C++, OpenGL, GLFW3
Ymir
A lightweight C++ project generator
Tools: C++, Bash, OpenGL, GLFW3, ImGui
Backlog
A simple CLI application where you can add games, films, shows, or anime to your ever-growing backlog
Tools: C++
Libraries
Ishtar
A single-file suite of tools for C++
Tools: C++
Socrates
Socrates is a simple, single-file math library specifically made for game/game engine development
Tools: C++
MSTR
A string library made purely in C
Tools: C
Wonder Audio
An audio library for playing and loading audio clips
Tools: C++, PortAudio, dr_libs
Levelizer
A data serialization language specifically made to serialize and deserialize levels and scenes
Tools: C++
Recent Posts
Game Design Study - Diablo 1
Diablo: The Designer
All About Resources
The Structure
Dogfooding - Game Engine Edition
Why Would I Feed My Dogs?
A Game Creation Dilemma
The Game Within The Engine Or The Engine Within The Game
Implementing Audio With OpenAL
My Audio Goals
The Hook Into The Engine
Unorthodox At Best
Making An OpenGL Wrapper
To OpenGL Or Not To OpenGL
Starting Up The Engine
Rev The Engine
New Year, New Game Engine
Me And Game Engines
On Computer Science Degrees
I Have Heard It All
The Case Against Realistic Graphics
Let Me Explain
The Failures Of API Design
It would be very easy to come on here and write about my absolute hate for modern APIs and how I completely despise them. I could tell you about the terrible...
My Bad Experience With Fiverr
Who? What? Why? So for the past 2 years, I’ve been freelancing on Fiverr. Game development freelancing in particular. I’m a 21-year-old self-taught programm...
My Dream Game Engine
Is That Even A Dream? We always hear about the dream game. The game every game dev hopes to make. Whether it be an Open-world RPG with Dark Souls mechanics a...
The Collision Conundrum
My Problem With Collisions Ever since I started my journey in the lower-level stage of game programming, collisions have been the bane of my existence. Even ...
Making The Engine
Where The Hell Have You Been? If you read my last devlog, you’d probably remember that I was going to do a devlog about collisions. If you read my last devlo...
The Importance Of Prototyping
What’s this game anyway? While I can entice you with all kinds of interesting facts about my game, I will not. As I do not know anything about the game yet. ...
Stop Trying to Make an Open World RPG
What do you mean? You know what I’m talking about. The devlog videos you always see on Youtube and TikTok. Videos made by beginner game devs trying to make a...
Why make a game from scratch?
What? Programming a game from scratch is not the easiest thing to do in the world. It is, in fact, very difficult. Some might even say it is a pointless and ...